-10 men
-met to codify and publish laws
-12 Tables: very strict and liberal use of capital punishment; evidence of legal classes (anti-plebeian)

Rex and interrex

-King: first to rule Rome (7 rexes)
-Interim king: king in between kingships so an election could be held

Senate: patres and conscripti

-an advisory and consultative body
-patres: heads of old Latin fams, clans, and their descendants
-conscripti: men added by Tarquins and maybe descendants of them: includes Etruscans, Sabines, and non-noble Latins

res publica

-"public thing"
-law is supreme overall citizens
-based on law and not the king's will

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